Rust Backend Engineer (Solana)

Plexus Resource Solutions Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Potential equity

Remote-friendly across Americas

Fast 3-stage process

Job summary

Plexus Resource Solutions Ltd. is seeking a Rust Backend Engineer to join a Solana-native data and trading infrastructure team, with real-time on-chain data and AI-driven workflows. You will work on core data pipelines, low-latency services, and deploy AI-enabled trading tools.

This remote role covers Canada, the US and South America, with Vancouver as a preference; Europe is also considered. Equity may be offered for senior hires, and the team is small with direct impact.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience in Rust.
• Hands-on Solana experience, professionally or through personal projects.
• Experience with gRPC and WebSockets.
• Solid understanding of database schema design and performance tuning.
• Comfortable working with AI tools day to day.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the core data pipelines and trading infrastructure behind live and historical on-chain data.
• Deploy and manage AI-driven trading bots in production.
• Work across liquidity, the price engine and Solana pool integrations.
• Reduce latency across gRPC and WebSocket services.
• Design and tune database schemas for high-volume, real-time data.
• Use AI tooling as a core part of how you build and ship.

Skills

Rust

Solana

gRPC

WebSockets

Database schema design

AI tooling

Job description

Rust Backend Engineer (Solana)

Plexus has partnered witha profitable, Solana-native data and trading infrastructure company providing real-time on-chain data, analytics and low-latency execution.

With no outside funding needed since their seed round, they are a small, AI-first team where every engineer has real ownership. They are hiring a Rust Backend Engineer to work alongside the technical lead on the systems that power their platform.

What the role looks like

• Maintain and improve the core data pipelines and trading infrastructure behind live and historical on-chain data

• Deploy and manage AI-driven trading bots in production

• Work across liquidity, the price engine and Solana pool integrations

• Reduce latency across gRPC and WebSocket services

• Design and tune database schemas for high-volume, real-time data

• Use AI tooling as a core part of how you build and ship

What you need to succeed

• Strong backend engineering experience in Rust

• Hands-on Solana experience, professionally or through your own projects

• Experience with gRPC and WebSockets

• Solid understanding of database schema design and performance tuning

• Comfortable working with AI tools day to day and able to show how you use them

Nice to have

• ClickHouse

• Trading, DEX or market data infrastructure experience

• Low-latency or high-throughput systems

What is on offer

• CAD $135k to $170k base depending on experience

• Remote across Canada, the US and South America, with Vancouver preferred. Europe considered

• Potential equity for senior hires

• A profitable, stable business with a small team and direct impact

• A fast 3-stage process, around 3 weeks end to end